Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-10
INTERSTATE COMMERCE NOTES.

ANY law restricting commerce results
only in Strengthening the influence of the
trunk lines, and any restriction as to
through rates builds up the East at the ex-
pense of the West and South. = Louisville
Courier Journal.
If the interstate commerce law succeeds
it is understood that Senator Cullom will
introduce bill next fall to modify the at
traction of gravitation within certain limits
and to regulate the weather between the
various merchants Washington Post.
The first political duty of the intelligent
and honest American citizen is to put
down and keep out of power the Demo
cratic party. This is because the Demo-
cratic organization is the party of reaction,
and that means return to the conditions
that caused the war. 1t is also because
the Democratic party is lacking in princi-
pies that apply to business affairs, except
so far as it is committed to heresies in
! commerce and finance that with authori-
tive application would prove fatal.-Cin-
cira,dti Commercial Gazette.
The investigations of the Interstate Com
merce Commissioners in New Orleans yes
terday would evidently have been good
thing if only they had been made before
the interstate commerce bill was passed.
The bulk of the evidence went to show
that the business of certain Southern cities
will be materially injured, perhaps ruined,
if the long and short haul clause is en-
forced. Doubtless most of the other cities
in the South, as well as in the North and
West, can produce equally strong testi-
mony, and then the predicament of the
Commissioners will be complete. Instead
of enforcing the law, their task may posi-
bly, be to devise the best means of how not
to do it-N Y Tribnne Ma, 2J
John NJ. Anterior, the publicist, says
Il know of nothing that would so dis
| courage those of us who are laboring to es-
tablish a cotton mill in Louisville. We
believe such an enterprise would pay here,
because at low through rates we could draw
our supplies from any point in the South,
and as distributing point We have access
to the entire Northwest. Enforce this
fourth section prohibiting greater charge
| for short haul than for long haul and
you work against us in both ways; you
cut us off from our supplies and from our
customers. Every manufacturing enter
| prise must be built on broader basis than
| this, If 1t is to succeed; we must buy any
where and sell anywhere in this country"
1t is expected that the fourth section of
| the Interstate Commerce Act-the long and
short haul clause-will be suspended.
While the section has not been given suf-
flclent trial to test its workings, there is no
| doubt that the law in its entirety is crude
| and mischievous, but there is an anomaly
| connected with it which is little less than
laughable. For years after the completion
OF the transcontinental railroad the mer-
chants of San Francisco howled about what
they called unjust discrimination, and the
injustice of charging more for shorter
than longer distance, and clamored for
legislation to amend that state of affairs.
We have seen child cry Tor an hour for
something which was refused it, and then
set up howl that would wake the dead
when at last granted its desire That's Just
the way with the San Francisco merchants
They cried for law against discrimina-
ton, and when they got it, screamed their
eyes out to have it taken back.-.Sacra.
n,e1,to Erening Star.